There has been a lot of discussion about the Malachy prophecy
with the
resignation of Pope Benedict. Whether or not Jorge Mario
Bergoglio
(Pope Francis) will be the leads the Catholic church into the
period of
time known as the Great Tribulation remains to be seen.
Kudos to
Tom Horn, co-author of “Petrus Romanus: The Final Pope is
Here”, for
being featured in this WND article. For those interested
in the
Malachy prophecies, Horn’s book
“Petrus
Romanus: The Final Pope is Here,” can be ordered at the
WND
bookstore. (John)

An author who predicted Pope Benedict XVI would be the first
pontiff in nearly 600 years to resign believes the election
today of
Jorge Mario Bergoglio as the 266th Roman Catholic pontiff lines
up with a
medieval prophecy that would make him the “final pope” before
the End
Times.

His book examines St. Malachy’s “Prophecy of the Popes,” said to
be based
on a prophetic vision of the 112 popes following Pope Celestine
II, who
died in 1144.

Malachy’s prophecies, first published in 1595, culminate with
the “final
pope,” “Petrus Romanus,” or “Peter the Roman,” whose reign ends
with the
destruction of Rome and the judgment of Christ.

Horn has said a pope of Italian descent would fulfill the
prophecy,
noting Bergoglio is the son of Italian parents and a Jesuit.

“Being a Jesuit is a very important aspect of our prediction in
our
book,” Horn told WND in an email.

Citing his book, Horn said the name “Petrus Romanus” in the
prophecy
“implies this pope will reaffirm the authority of the Roman
Pontiff over
the Church and will emphasize the supremacy of the Roman
Catholic Faith
and the Roman Catholic Church above all other religions and
denominations, and its authority over all Christians and all
peoples of
the world.”

Horn pointed out the Jesuits order was organized “to stop
Protestantism
from spreading and to preserve communion with Rome and the
successor of
Peter.”

As
WND
reported, Horn and his co-author, Cris Putnam, predicted
in their
book Benedict would step down, making way for history’s “final
pope.”

The 2012 prediction

Remarkably, Horn told WND, more than 60 years ago a Belgian
Jesuit
theologian and academic named Rene Thibault came up with the
date 2012 as
the culmination of Malachy’s prophecies.

Horn points to reports that Benedict made his decision to resign
last
year, before announcing it in February.

Thibaut’s was published in French only four months before
Thibaut
died.

“Adopting the methodology of a mystic as well as a scholar,”
Horn and
Putnam write in the first chapter of their book, Thibaut “makes
a
compelling case that ‘The Prophecy of the Popes’ is a real
supernatural
prophecy.”

Horn noted Thibaut is among many Catholic leaders, including
popes,
cardinals and priests, who have affirmed Malachy’s work, which
was kept
in the Vatican archives for five centuries before it was first
published.

He said Thibaut used a number of methods of cryptographic
analysis to
come up with the date 2012, including calculating the average
length of
papal reign up until the time he wrote his book.

“In other words,” Horn and Putnam write, “2012 was seen as an
end-times
‘event horizon’ by at least one Jesuit priest before most
readers were
born.”

St. Malachy, an Irish saint and the archbishop of Armagh, who
lived from
1094 to 1148, described the “final pope” this way: “In the
extreme
persecution of the Holy Roman Church, there will sit Peter the
Roman, who
will nourish the sheep in many tribulations; when they are
finished, the
City of Seven Hills will be destroyed, and the dreadful judge
will judge
his people.”

As WND reported,
he
described the penultimate pope, which Horn believes is Benedict,
as
“Gloria Olivae,” or “Glory of the Olive.”

Benedict was not a Benedictine priest, yet he chose the name of
the
founder of the Order of Saint Benedict, which also is known as
the
Olivetans

The symbol of the Benedictine order includes an olive branch.

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